Veteran pop-rock act Chicago returns to Milwaukee April 30 for a 7 p.m. show at the Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Formed in 1969 as the Chicago Transit Authority, the horns-and-harmonies-powered band has had 21 top 10 singles in its 40-plus-year tenure ( "Saturday in the Park," "25 or 6 to 4," "If You Leave Me Now," "Make Me Smile," "Hard to Say I'm Sorry," etc.), and is still recording new material, including "America," posted online earlier this year. | Oct. 30, 2013»Read Full Article(2)

When we first meet Nick in Carlos Murillo's "Dark Play," now on stage at Pink Banana Theatre Company in a production that opened over the weekend, he's a blandly attractive, seemingly wholesome collegian — "pretty much indistinguishable," as he'll later tell us, "from any other college kid."

But there's more here than initially meets the eye, as we learn when the woman sharing Nick's dorm-room bed begins asking about the web of scars along his waistline. Does Nick tell Molly the truth about these now-healed wounds? Or should he do as he's always done and make "stuff" — Nick uses a different word — up? | Nov. 3, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

Although it has been reported that Ralph Stanley is on his farewell tour, the reports might be exaggerated or untrue.

Saturday night at the Pabst Theater, Ralph's grandson Nathan spoke for the bluegrass pioneer when he stated that if it is a farewell tour, it is one "with no end date." | Nov. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

Many of the artists who have won this year's Mary L. Nohl Fellowships for individual artists, the most prestigious local award for artists, are particularly strong in the areas of film and new media.

Selected from a field of 162 applicants, the seven winners include three in the category for established artists, which includes a cash prize of $15,000, and four in the category for emerging artists, which comes with a $5,000 prize. | Nov. 3, 2013»Read Full Article